基本信息

· 书名:The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget’s Thesaurus

· 作者:KENDALL

· ISBN13:9780425225899

· 装帧:平装

· 语种:英文

· 出版日期:2009-03-03

· 出版社:Penguin Random House US

· 页数:307

· 重量:0.3 kg

· 尺寸:20.9 x 13.9 x 1.8 cm

* 页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准.

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In the tradition of The Professor and the Madman a brisk and vivid ( Los Angeles Times ) account of an obsessive scholar
Polymath eccentric and synonym aficionado Peter Mark Roget had a host of female admirers was one of the first to test the effects of laughing gas invented the slide rule and narrowly escaped jail in Napoleon s France But Roget is best known for making lists
After the tragic turmoil of his early life (both his mother and sister were institutionalized) Roget longed for order in his chaotic

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Kendall Joshua Joshua Kendall is a language enthusiast and an award winningJoshua Kendall is a language enthusiast and an award winning freelance journalist who currently writes for such publicat freelance journalist who currently writes for such publications as Business Week and The Boston Globe ions as Business Week and The Boston Globe